Sarah A. Zielinski Partner

Sarah’s antitrust litigation experience consists of representing companies and individuals in civil and criminal antitrust actions involving conspiracies, price fixing, market and customer allocation, bid rigging, indirect purchaser claims, monopolization, attempted monopolization, exclusive dealing, and unfair competition.

Sarah regularly counsels clients on a wide variety of antitrust issues, including competitor interactions, competitor collaborations, resale price maintenance, minimum advertised pricing, tying, group boycotts, benchmarking, competitive information exchanges, non-compete agreements, exclusive dealing, reciprocal dealing, below-cost pricing, discounting practices, price discrimination, unfair competition, and deceptive practices. She has assisted companies with internal investigations and audits to assess compliance with the antitrust and corruption laws. She has helped companies implement compliance policies and launch training programs to reduce antitrust and corruption risk. Sarah has given speeches and training presentations on antitrust compliance and recent developments under the antitrust laws.

Beyond her antitrust experience, Sarah also has extensive class action litigation experience, with an emphasis on defending consumer class action cases. She has significant experience defending class action and individual cases arising under the TCPA. She has successfully obtained voluntary and involuntary dismissals of TCPA cases, and has negotiated class action and individual settlements. Sarah also regularly counsels clients on how to ensure that their practices are TCPA-compliant.

Sarah has represented clients in a variety of complex commercial litigation matters, including cases involving securities law violations, products liability, commercial fraud, consumer fraud, tortious interference and other business torts, contract disputes, and lender liability.

In 2014, Sarah spent three months working in-house for a firm client. Sarah’s responsibilities included updating the client’s compliance policies and drafting new policies governing all aspects of the client’s business. She also provided counseling on antitrust, corruption, and other trade matters.

Sarah is actively involved in the American Bar Association. She is currently Co-Chair of the Pricing Conduct Committee of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association.